Four generations of the Dixon family made their living in forestry on this land, promoting the management of trees as a renewable resource and contributing significantly to Alabama’s economy and forest industry. Jeremiah Dixon II, son of Revolutionary War Private Jeremiah Dixon, was the first family member to settle here sometime between 1815 and 1830. The land passed through four successive generations from Jeremiah to his son Wiley Dixon, from Wiley to his son Napoleon Bonepart Dixon, and then to Napoleon Bonepart’s son Solon Dixon. Napoleon’s sons, Solon and Charles Dixon, who were both raised in this home, became successful forest products industrialists and recognized conservationists. In 1978, Solon and his wife Martha donated the land and a gift to Auburn University to build the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center, and at its 1979 dedication Solon Dixon said that on the ground their ancestors had homesteaded they were seeing the beginning of a learning and research center that would last far beyond their lifetimes. The Dixon home, built in the 1850’s and moved to this site in the 1870’s, was framed with locally milled pine and originally constructed as a two-room dogtrot with open porches at the front and rear. It has hand-planed boards on the walls and ceilings, pegged window sashes in the two main rooms, rear porch and center breezeway enclosures added sometime after 1900 to create interior rooms, and a separate two-room kitchen structure at the rear connected by a covered porch. The house also has two riverbank limestone chimneys built with bricks cut from the banks of the nearby Conecuh River. Once surrounded by outbuildings tied to the family’s forestry operations, the home is now the center of the Solon Dixon Forestry Education Center and was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage in 2005.